Pointer: The Real Stuff -- Shuttle documentary at abd and abmd

This was just posted at alt.binaries.documentaries and
alt.binaries.multimedia.documentaries. It is a great documentary from
1987.

Many of you may remember this show. It includes footage inside the MCC
at the moment Cleon Lacefield made the "Abort To Orbit" call during the
ascent of mission 51-F. Some great interviews of the astronauts, Max
Faget, Gene Krantz, etc

From the .nfo file:

Narrated by James Reston, Jr.

A documentary about the space shuttle highlighting its dramatic history
from 1981 to 1986 with astronauts John Young, Rick Hauck, Hoot Gibson,
Hank Hartsfield, Roy Bridges, Joe Allen, and Dick Covey. Also
interviewed are shuttle designer Max Faget, and various other astronauts
and some of their wives.

This is a deeply personal, intimate account of what it was like to fly
the most advanced and amazing launch vehicle / spacecraft / airplane ever
created by mankind. The emphasis is on those golden days before the
Challenger accident, but the accident is included as well as the efforts
to recover from this first devastating in-flight loss of American
astronauts.

This PBS documentary includes very rare footage of actual real-time
events inside Mission Control during the STS-51F Abort To Orbit launch,
as well as the actual footage of the controllers experiencing the sudden
impact of the 51-L launch tragedy.

An epilogue by then PBS correspondent Judy Woodruff completes the show (I
never previously realized how stunningly attractive Ms. Woodruff was
during her heyday).

This is a VHS-to-VCD conversion so the entire video is rather grainy.
Please view the preview if you are concerned about its visual quality.
The content of the show is so gripping that the video quality, to me, is
a very, very, minor factor.